America’s Warning Signs (The Tragic Result of Flying Blind)
I was reading about the circumstances regarding the crash of Aeroperu Airlines Flight 603 (2 October 1996). It was truly an accident that need...
The Blue Spade Sings: The Prius Patrol
The Blue Spade (aka Scott Bandy) returns with another musical parody—this time a musical analysis of Charlottesville City Hall’s dreaded Prius Patrol.
Sung to the...
Holding out for a hero: the failure of feminism
The other evening while at dinner, thanks to boisterous voices, I could not help but overhear the adjacent table full of twenty-something women, bemoaning...
And the children shall lead (or destroy): How we’ve fostered our own demise
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it”—Proverbs 22:6
History is so...
Schilling Show wins five Associated Press awards
Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling, recently was recognized by the Associated Press with five awards for his reporting and journalism over the past year.
At...
Signer’s folly: AG Herring strikes unconstitutional public meeting speech limitations
A recent opinion issued by Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring validates legal critics of Charlottesville’s draconian, newly adopted “Council Meeting Procedures.”
Herring was asked by...
Guest editorial: “Mother” Teresa Sullivan’s UVa sex assault coverup
by David Ramadan
Last October, I wrote that I was sick and tired of people in charge not taking responsibility for the actions — or...
Opacity unmasked #1: Albemarle, Charlottesville and schools reveal secret email recipients
For a long time, citizens of Charlottesville and Albemarle attempting to contact their elected representatives through official city and county web sites have been...
Video essay: Unity in the Community and the removal of Robert E. Lee from...
The following video series documents the March 22, 2016 “Unity in the Community” event in Charlottesville’s Lee Park. Led by Charlottesville Vice Mayor Wes...
NPR and Obama: PC foreign accent do’s and don’ts
NPR, otherwise known as Nucklehead Progressive Radio loves to say certain foreign words in the foreign accent of the other language. Anybody ever notice...